Skip to main content
Newton Park Halls – Bath Spa University

Surround yourself in beautiful countryside living in our social and friendly Newton Park accommodation. Based on campus, you'll go from breakfast to lecture in minutes.

Live at the heart of where it all happens. We house over 900 students in single, shared, and en-suite study bedrooms in our Gardens and Lakeside residences. You’ll benefit from great facilities, instagram-worthy surroundings and a busy social calendar.

You’ll find everything you need on campus, including places to get hot and cold food, drinks, and groceries. The Students' Union (SU) has a fully licensed bar and a shop where you can buy everyday essentials.

Why Newton Park halls?

  • A variety of self catered accommodation options, including en-suites, rooms with communal bathrooms, and shared bedrooms
  • Great on-site facilities including launderettes, refectory, Students' Union, gym, library, and theatre
  • Free wireless internet
  • 24-hour security
  • Communal cleaning
  • Student possessions insurance, utilities and services bills included (excluding TV licence)
Need to know about accessibility of our Newton Park halls? Our student support team are happy to answer your questions, or visit our accessibility guide.
 
You can see 360° images of this accommodation by selecting the Gardens and Lakeside albums.

Lakeside

Lakeside accommodation is situated next to the Commons building with some rooms benefiting from a view of the Newton Park Campus Lake.

Standard and large rooms with shared bathroom

Hiscocks, Harington, and Pope are traditional halls, with individual blocks of eight to twelve students connected by long corridors. You’ll share bathroom and toilet facilities between no more than five other students. The kitchen and dining area is also communal, shared with the fellow residents in your block.

Langton and Temple are set around small courtyards, creating a cosy community feel. Your room will include a good-sized desk, single bed, wardrobe, chest of drawers, and wash basin. You'll share bathroom and toilet facilities with no more than four other residents and a kitchen and communal area between four to eight residents.

Lakeside has a number of rooms in shared houses on Newton Park campus which have single and large single rooms. Both room types include a good-sized desk, single bed, wardrobe, chest of drawers, and wash basin. You’ll share both bathroom facilities and a kitchen between three to five other residents.

  • Average room size Gore House large: 9m²
  • Average room size Harington standard: 8m²
  • Average room size Harington large: 14m²
  • Average room size Hiscocks standard: 8.5m²
  • Average room size Hiscocks large: 14m²
  • Average room size Langton large: 12m²
  • Average room size Pope standard: 8m²
  • Average room size Pope large: 13m²
  • Average room size Temple large: 13m²
  • Average room size Temple House large: 10m²

(Please be aware these are only average sizes and each individual room may differ in size depending on it's location within each building.)

Standard room with ensuite

Our Lakeside accommodation has ensuite rooms in Sydney. These have a good-sized desk, single bed, wardrobe, chest of drawers, and a modern fitted ensuite with shower, wash basin, and toilet.

  • Average room size Sydney ensuite: 17m² 

 

Twin room with shared bathroom

Our Lakeside accommodation contains a small quantity of twin rooms, where two students have their own single bed, desk, wardrobe, chest of drawers and share the rest of the room.

The kitchen and dining area is communal, shared with the fellow residents in your block. A modern fitted ensuite with shower, wash basin, and toilet is shared among the rest of the residents in the flat, between no more than five other students.

  • Average room size: 14m² 
Private studio flat (accessible)

This Lakeside ensuite studio flat comprises of a large room with a single bed, desk and wardrobe and kitchen facilities and has a separate bathroom/wet room.

There is a ramp and automatic door to access the flat and this flat is allocated as a priority to students with access requirements.

  • Average room size Gore House studio: 28m²

“Living in Bath has been an excellent experience. It is a safe place with such diversity in the places you can go out to socialise while learning how to become completely independent.”

Francesca Spencer, Geography and International Education

Gardens

Situated near the Students’ Union and Walled Garden, the Gardens halls are the newest of our Newton Park campus halls. Your room will have a small double bed, a good-sized desk, fitted wardrobe, drawers, under bed storage and an en-suite bathroom.

Block accommodation

The Gardens halls are made up of blocks of ten study bedrooms and a communal kitchen (with the exception of Lime G and F blocks which contain eight bedrooms).

There are two options of room size and these are noted on the price list as Gardens Standard Room with Ensuite, and Gardens Large Room with Ensuite.

The Gardens residences also has six fully accessible rooms which are allocated as a priority to students with access requirements.

  • Average room size Gardens ensuite: 11m²
  • Average room size Gardens large ensuite: 13m²
Private studio flat and private studio flat (accessible)

We have fourteen private studios and one fully accessible private studio with kitchen facilities, study space, and en-suite facilities.

  • Average room size Gardens accessible studio flat: 22m²
  • Average room size Gardens studio: 17m²

Edit section | Website feedback to web@bathspa.ac.uk